Holidays Around the World: Mexico

Yesterday we traveled to Mexico to learn about how Christmas is celebrated.  As usual, we began our day by looking at our map and marking our next location:

Then we hopped aboard the Holiday Express, turned off the lights, listened to Feliz Navidad (and everyone enjoyed singing along thanks to our fabulous music teacher at JSES!), and watched a slideshow with pictures of celebrations in Mexico.

Upon arrival, we got our passport stamped and were ready to go:

I purchased these great holidays around the world powerpoint presentations from TPT. We started out watching the one about Mexico and learned a lot about the different ways they celebrate. After we watched the powerpoint, we got to work creating our scrapbook page:

I just LOVE how these scrapbooks  are turning out! Such a great addition to this unit.

Next, we gathered around on the carpet and read The Legend of the Poinsettia. Finally we set to work creating our souvenir from this stop on our trip ... of course, a poinsettia. We used our handprint to create this one:

Next stop: Brazil!